Literature-2

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Literature-2，或称文学二，是一个广泛的概念，通常指的是一种以文字为媒介的艺术形式。这种艺术形式包括诗歌、小说、戏剧、散文等多种形式，旨在通过语言的运用来表达作者的思想、情感和观察。文学作品通常具有丰富的象征性和隐喻性，能够引发读者的深思和共鸣。文学二的研究涉及到对作品的形式、内容、主题、风格、历史背景等多个方面的分析。此外，文学二也是一种教育工具，可以帮助学生提高他们的语言技能，增强他们的批判性思维能力，以及扩大他们对世界的理解。总的来说，文学二是一种强大的艺术和教育工具，它通过文字的力量，让我们能够更深入地理解人性和社会。

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The Naturalistic Period

Feature

Apply principles of scientific determinism to fiction & drama

Viewing human beings as animals in the natural world
responding to environmental forces & internal stresses & drives

Representative Figure

Theodore Dreiser
(1871-1945)

American values—materialistic

Masterpieces :
Sister Carrie (1900) ;
The American Tragedy (1925)

Trilogy of desire :
The Financer ( 1912 ) ;
The Titan ( 1914 ) ;
The Stoic ( 1945 )

The Modern Period

Lost Generation

American writers caught in WWI and cut off from the old values ;
unable to come to terms with the new era

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896-1940

The Great Gatsby
—a masterpiece in American literature

end of the American Dream

Ernest Hemingway

1899-1961

Nobel Prize winner

Hemingway's world—chaotic & meaningless

Hero possessing a "despairing courage"

writing style— colloquialism

Modern Poetry

Representative Figure

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

a link between US & Britain

Imagism

The Cantos—
he wrote & published until his death

The Contemporary Period

Black Writers

* Richard Wright—Native Son (1940)

* Ralph Ellison—Invisible Man (1952)

* James Baldwin—Go Tell It on the Mountain (1954)

Langston Hughes
(1902-1967)

poet laureate, literary figure of Harlem Renaissance

embraced African-American jazz rhythms
& incorporated blues, spirituals, colloquial speech, & folkways in his poetry

most beloved poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Jewish Writers

focus upon Jewish characters & social questions,
& bring a distinctively Jewish sense of humor to their novels

Yiddish—language used by European Jews

Saul Bellow
(1915-2005)

Won Nobel Prize in 1976

The Beat Movement

central Beat writers

William Burroughs

Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac

express emotion "raw", rather than "cooked"
through memory & translation into art

Literature of Modern South

William Faulkner—Nobel Prize winning novelist

Major works :

* The Sound and the Fury (1929)

* As I Lay Dying (1930)

stories set in a small southern county,
exploration of basic human nature & basic patterns
of human behavior make them enduring works in world literature

Women's Voices

Feminist movement during the 1960s & 1970s affected
American culture & women's relationship with the opposite sex.

Tony Morrison (1931- )

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

famous novels—The Bluest Eye (1970)
& Beloved (1987)

Alice Walker (1944- )

spoke for the women's movement,
for the anti-nuclear movement

received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple

Amy Tan (1952- )

Chinese-American writer

portrays the lives of Chinese American daughters
& their Chinese immigrant mothers

Drama